OBI Scrapbook Blog

Thumbling.
Philipp Grot Johann from Kinder und Haus märchen gesammelt durch die Bruder Grimm (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) by Jacob Grimm, Stuttgart: 1912.

Source: the New York Public Library.

The duck.
Félix Bracquemond from L'artiste, Paris: 1856.

Source: the MET.

The palaces of Nimroud [Nimrud]. Restored.
Frederick Thomas (?) Baynes from A second series of the Monuments of Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, London: 1853.

Source: the New York Public Library.

Never did Christmas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of countenances.
Randolph Caldecott from Old Christmas by Washington Irving, London: 1886.

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Source: the Internet Archive.

Le voleur de la montagne (The Robber from the Mountain).
Célestin Nanteuil from the Revue des peintres, Paris: 1836.

Source: the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Hereford.
Thomas Creswick from The Wye and Its Associations; a Picturesque Ramble by Leitch Ritchie, London: 1841.

Source: the Internet Archive.

The Fairy Queen takes an airy drive in a light carriage, a twelve-in-hand, drawn by thoroughbred butterflies.
Richard Doyle from In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World with a poem by William Allingham, London: 1870.

Source: the MET.

From On the making of etchings by Frank Short, London: 1898.

Source: the Internet aerchive.